Welcome to Blogging!

I have to admit I am more nervous about this then I should be. Technology scares me more than it should and I never saw myself doing this. But since I have been on vacation 5 1/2 weeks I have developed quite a large addiction to blogs. In fact whenever I get a free moment whether it be my daughter sleeping, or my husband taking over I am reading the blogs.

Let me give you some background as to why blogging has become so important to me. It is a very lengthy story so you might want to get comfortable! My husband and I have been married for almost 7 years, in fact he was my high school sweetheart. God has blessed us with a beautiful, outspoken, or as my friend recently told me "spirited" little girl. Abby is the light of our life, and makes everyday an adventure. Anyway Sean and I have always dreamed of filling our house with many children. So once Abby hit one we decided to start trying again. Unfortunatly, I found out I was unable to have anymore children at least biologically. This was very hard for Sean and I to handle and we ran through the whole gamete of emotions. After we had accepted the doctor's diagnosis we looked into various infertility treatments. I also went through months of acupuncture treatments, which shows my dedication to family as I am deathly afraid of needles. None of these avenues ever really felt quite right to us. We then started pursuing adoption and all of the pieces fell into place. We finally felt that this was the path God was leading us to.

We have deceded to go with Holt, which so far has been wonderful. Sean and I have now filled out the intial apploication, completed both parenting classes, completed our homestudy (sent to Korea April 11th), as well as finished and filed our 1-600A. Now we are just waiting, and waiting, and waiting. Which is where my passion for blogging came in. Because the wait seems so tedious and long I have been reading several other adoption blogs, so that I can see that this dream really will come true someday. This has also helped me to connect with other people that have gone through the same actions and emotions that Sean and I are feeling. It is a little sureal to have had a child and now be adopting, because I can see first hand just how differently you are treated. When you are pregnant everyone is asking your due date and touching your belly, but with adotping it is like people are afraid to ask. I am not sure if it is because they don't know what to say, or do they forget because they don't see a protruding belly? Anyway I have found at times it can be very lonely, and reading others blogs helps me to feel connected.

So here I am enetering the blogging community, and very excited to be here. Now I am going to need to figure out how to post pictures, which I suppose will be a whole new mountain to climb.